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© West Indies Alumina CompanyJoint Venture members: Glencore Alumina Jamaica Limited, Jamaica Bauxite Mining Limited.

PI Informant

Technological Awakening

Friday, April 21, 2023© West Indies Alumina Company

Windalco

• Joint Venture – Glencore Alumina Jamaica Ltd (93%)– Jamaica Bauxite Mining Limited (7%)

• Assets– Alumina Refineries – Kirkvine & Ewarton Works– Port - Port Esquivel


5 0 10 20 3010Miles

Montego BayPort Rhoades

Kingston

Ewarton

M

SML 162

Alpart

JBM

Alcoa

Bauxite Mining Leases in Jamaica

Major Bauxite Bearing Areas

Parish Boundary

M = Mandeville

Kaiser

Port Kaiser

Windalco

JBM

Railway

WindalcoSML 161

WindalcoSEPL 524

(130.8 sq.km)(67.98 sq.km)

(139.67 sq.km)

816 0 16 32 48

Kilometers


Refinery Locations


Bayer Process


Objective and Infrastructure

• DCS/Advanced Controls Department– Plant Optimisation– Technology

• Honeywell TPS (DCS)• ABB (DCS)• Expert Systems

– RMPCT (Kirkvine)– Inhouse CL Programs– ABB Expert Optimiser (Kirkvine & Ewarton)

• PI 3• Processbook 2.3


Why?

• PI Processbook has become the standard tool of management, team leaders, engineers and operators, that is, people directly connected the process.

• Some of the Processbook files are huge, consuming computer resources and they take some time to load up.

• There was a need for a ‘lightweight’ program which could access the same PI information and display it.

• Increase the utilisation of PI across the organisation.


What is it?

• Program written completely in Visual Basic 6.• Ticker type functionality (information runs across the

screen). Process values are displayed under various headings which can be customized by the user.


Features

• Add and Delete tags and Categories from this dialog box.

• Right clicking on any tag brings up a menu.

• Selecting Manage Tags brings up the dialog box


Feature cont’d

• Pressing on Trend brings up a basic trend of the tag. Still some bugs to be worked out.


Features cont’d

• Can stay on top all the other programs. Menu item is toggles this feature on and off.


Features cont’d

• Can change program settings via the Preferences option.– The scroll speed and

program colours can be changed.

– Remembers the last settings upon start-up of the program.


Demo


Future

• Improve program with advances in PI technology and User input.

• Increase company wide utilisation.


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